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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi there,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Add <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>worker_rlimit_nofile 10240;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>to your nginx configuration should fix this problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Glen Lumanau<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> owner-nginx@sysoev.ru
[mailto:owner-nginx@sysoev.ru] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Arash Ferdowsi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 17 Nopember 2008 17:50<br>
<b>To:</b> nginx@sysoev.ru<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: strange 'too many open files' errors with nginx 0.6.32<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>oh, and one more thing,
restarting nginx seems to fix everything (until the error pops up again a day
or so later :-)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Arash Ferdowsi <<a
href="mailto:arash@getdropbox.com">arash@getdropbox.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>i'm seeing a strange 'too many open files' error with nginx
(which I'm sure many of you have seen before):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2008/11/17 02:15:02 [alert] 21748#0: accept() failed (24:
Too many open files) while accepting new connection on <a
href="http://67.228.78.114:80" target="_blank">67.228.78.114:80</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>strangely enough, I have the following line in
/etc/security/limits: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>* hard nofile 524288<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>and ulimit -n returns the same number. I have 2 workers set
to a max of 262144 connections. upon receiving that error (and after
past occurrences) I've run lsof and gotten < 10k sockets. additionally,
I have a nearly identically configured machine (running twisted) where each
process is handling ~15k connections. so I'm a loss as to what's going on here
(and suspect some subtle bug in nginx or in my server configuration. any help
would be greatly appreciated!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#888888'><br>
-- <br>
Arash Ferdowsi<br>
CTO, Dropbox<br>
913.707.5875 (m)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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-- <br>
Arash Ferdowsi<br>
CTO, Dropbox<br>
913.707.5875 (m)<o:p></o:p></p>
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